Vice President Harris' communications director, Ashley Etienne, will be leaving her White House role next month, an official confirmed to The Hill on Thursday.

"Ashley is valued member of the Vice President’s team, who has worked tirelessly to advance the goals of this administration," a White House official said in a statement. "She is leaving the office in December to pursue other opportunities."

Her departure comes in the aftermath of multiple reports of frustration about how Harris is being used in the Biden administration. Harris's 2020 presidential campaign was also reportedly marred by staffing issues, and she eventually withdrew from the race prior to the Iowa caucus.

Etienne joined the vice president's team when Harris took office in January. She previously served as communications director for Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and worked in the Obama administration before that.

Senator Bernie Sanders said he is working on a proposal to set an income threshold for an unlimited state and local tax deduction while letting high earners continue to deduct $10,000 from their federal taxes as they can under current law.

“I am working with some of my colleagues to make sure that we come up with a proposal that protects the middle class, but does not end up with an overall reconciliation bill, in which millionaires are better off tax-wise than they were under Trump,” the Budget Committee chair told reporters Tuesday.

Sanders, a Vermont independent who caucuses with Democrats, said he is working on a plan that would give an unlimited deduction on federal returns for state and local taxes, or SALT, under a certain income level that is still being negotiated. Sanders has previously floated about $400,000 in annual income as the limit for unlimited SALT write-offs.

Senator Bob Menendez, a New Jersey Democrat who is also working on the proposal, said the lawmakers are looking at options that won’t add to the deficit. He said that they are still waiting for data from congressional scorekeepers, but that the income threshold could be as much as $500,000.

A congressional committee investigating the Trump administration’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic issued a subpoena for former White House trade adviser Peter Navarro on Thursday for failing to respond to document and interview requests.

The subpoena is the second issued by the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis since its formation last year. The committee is probing whether former Trump administration officials mishandled the federal response to the pandemic, specifically whether it interfered with its own health agencies’ work and how it attempted to change its messaging to downplay the threats posed by the virus.

The committee issued its first subpoena to Steven Hatfill, a virologist and former adviser to Navarro, in September. The committee also sent a document request to Navarro that month. Thursday’s subpoena compels Navarro to produce documents by Dec. 8 and appear for a deposition by Dec. 15.

In a statement to POLITICO, Navarro called the congressional investigation and the subpoena a "witch hunt." "I will be delivering a case of my new book 'In Trump Time' to members of the committee which explains why this is indeed a witch hunt," he said.

The awkward moment that Georgia Democrats have dreaded all year is finally here.

The state's Republican-controlled legislature revealed a new congressional map on Wednesday that will claw back one of the two seats the party lost over the past three years, leaving only a single district for both of the delegation's Democratic rising stars.

That marks the start of several weeks of uncomfortable tension and maneuvering for Rep. Lucy McBath, a gun-violence advocate who ousted then-GOP Rep. Karen Handel in 2018 a year after Handel won a blockbuster special election, and Rep. Carolyn Bourdeaux, the only Democratic candidate to flip a swing seat in an otherwise disappointing 2020 election for her party.

In an attempt to contain the explosion of Democratic-leaning communities of color in the northern Atlanta suburbs, the GOP proposal transformed Bourdeaux's turf into something heavily Democratic, while making McBath's seat much more Republican-friendly. Their goal: Take two Democratic-trending swing seats, and instead create one red district and one blue district.

Elevation — Florida Republicans have caught up with, and now surpassed, Democrats in terms of registered voters. It's a feat that a few years ago was considered unthinkable even as the GOP continued to win close election after close election, whether it was Rick Scott in 2010 and 2014, and Ron DeSantis and Scott in 2018.

Wire — The totals at the end of October showed there are now 6,035 more Republicans than Democrats in Florida out of nearly 14.3 million registered active voters. This accomplishment — telegraphed a few weeks ago by DeSantis — was called a “milestone moment” by Republican Party of Florida executive director Helen Aguirre Ferré.

Vertigo — Democrats for their part are pushing back… somewhat. They have questioned the numbers of voters being reclassified as inactive from active in some counties. Democrats are still ahead by nearly 62,000 voters if you count those now listed as inactive. Yes, it’s true that those voters remain eligible, but less than 1 percent of those who turned out in 2018 were inactive.

One — The plain fact is that Democrats once had a tremendous advantage — one that aided Barack Obama’s 2008 and 2012 wins in Florida — and it’s gone. Just three years ago, in the election that DeSantis barely won over Andrew Gillum, Dems had a registration advantage of more than 264,000. In 18 of the last 19 months, Republicans have outpaced Democrats in the number of first-time registrants. “The reality is that the state is changing,” said Ryan Tyson, a well-known GOP consultant.